Cattery Website: What Kitten Buyers Need to Know

A cattery website should explain the cats you breed, how kittens are raised, what evidence buyers can review, and how your placement process works. Organize it around the questions a kitten buyer asks, with separate pages for your breeding cats, current litters and retired adults when relevant.

Creatures Websites can turn the cat profiles, photographs, groups and listings you already maintain into a public site. You choose what appears, including which animal pages and details remain private.

Start with the kind of home a cat will need

Explain the breed or breeds you work with and the goals of your program. A visitor should be able to tell whether you place companion kittens, consider breeding homes, offer retired adults, or are simply sharing your cats without current availability.

Describe the cats’ actual living environment and daily contact with people. Explain how you observe individual kittens and discuss their needs with prospective homes. Avoid promising that every kitten will be quiet, tolerate every other pet or be a good match for every family. If you keep a breed with particular grooming or activity needs, describe those honestly rather than letting attractive photographs carry the whole story.

The CFA breeder code of ethics emphasizes honest dealings, appropriate records, veterinary care and disclosure of illness or infectious exposure. A website should make your own practices understandable without implying that a registry name guarantees the health of a particular kitten.

Link readers who are still researching to the cat species and breed pages. Keep the cattery’s own pages focused on the cats, evidence and placement decisions you can explain firsthand.

Give queens and toms their own context

A parent page should identify the cat consistently across photographs, records and pedigree documents. Include the registered name if relevant, call name, sex, role in the program and accurate photographs. If a tom belongs to another breeder, say so rather than presenting him as a resident cat.

Explain registration and titles in ordinary language. Name the organization that issued the document or award and distinguish an actual result from an aspiration. A claim that a cat has impressive lines is less useful than a family record that can be checked.

Use the cat pedigree papers guide when explaining what documents a buyer will receive. Do not fill missing ancestors from appearance or a similar name. A public family tree should preserve uncertainty rather than conceal it.

Health information needs the same care. State the particular test or examination, the cat it belongs to, its date and the recorded result. Explain what is pending. Share the report through an appropriate channel and let your veterinarian interpret medical implications. A broad phrase such as tested clear should not stand in for a list of what was actually tested.

Build litter pages that do not confuse interest with a reservation

Separate current litters, planned matings and past litters. A planned pairing is not a promise of a particular kitten, sex, color or date. Use clear status labels and update them as your decisions change.

For a current litter, identify the parents and show dated photographs that let buyers distinguish the kittens. Describe the placement process before asking for a payment. State whether you are collecting general interest, inviting an application or discussing an identified kitten with a particular home.

The breeder waitlist management guide explains the difference between interest, review, queue decisions and an offer. Let the website use those stages consistently. Someone joining a list should not believe that they have bought a kitten.

A retired adult deserves a useful page too. Explain the individual cat’s circumstances and the kind of home you are seeking, with known needs discussed honestly. Do not leave the adult hidden beneath pages of kitten photographs if finding the right home is the task.

Explain the practical handoff

Tell buyers how they can discuss the cat with you, what the application asks, and when they will receive the proposed sale terms. Include how visits or remote conversations are arranged. A home-based cattery can set appointment and privacy boundaries without leaving buyers unable to ask meaningful questions.

Explain which records and instructions accompany the cat. The cat health record guide helps separate veterinary visits, test reports, medicines and follow-up information. The treating veterinarian sets the medical plan; a website should not create one universal schedule for every kitten.

If you use a contract, describe its purpose and provide the actual terms for review before commitment. Have an attorney familiar with your operation review health promises, deposits, cancellation and return provisions. Do not describe the agreement as legally guaranteed because someone signs it online.

Applications should ask for relevant information, such as household routine, existing animals, housing plans and experience. The buyer application guide applies to the review process even though its examples feature dogs. Adapt the questions to cats rather than copying a puppy form without thought.

Keep the public page separate from the private file

Photographs and a concise parent summary can be public while a buyer conversation, address or signed agreement stays private. Review documents individually before sharing them. Other owners’ contact information, signatures, payment details and veterinary client information do not belong on a public page by default.

Use the website visibility guide to understand animal privacy and inclusion on the site. Then check the result while signed out. A menu setting is not a substitute for checking the actual cat page and its attachments.

Choose photographs that show the cats clearly in the environment you describe. Keep fur markings, body shape and color truthful. Show an ordinary useful view as well as a portrait; do not use image edits to imply traits the cat does not have.

Set up the cattery site on Creatures

Choose the correct user or organization account, check its name and contact details, and open the builder from that profile. The website builder overview explains the starting point and draft process.

Review the animal cards, litter or group pages, selected pedigree and health details, and the contact or application path you intend to use. Add your own program description and remove starter material that does not describe your cattery. Connected records help avoid maintaining the same information in several places, but you remain responsible for accuracy and disclosure.

A creaturesite.com website is free. Connecting your own domain requires Creatures Pro. You can also keep an existing website and link to connected cat or litter information on Creatures.

The broader farm website guide covers site planning and privacy. If you manage several animal programs, compare the structure in the livestock breeder website guide while keeping the cattery’s vocabulary and process specific to cats.

Review the site with a kitten buyer’s questions

Open it on a phone, signed out, and start from a kitten page. Can a visitor identify the parents, understand availability, find the application and see what happens next? Check that a past litter is clearly historical and that a retired breeding cat is described accurately.

Test the contact route yourself and confirm that responses reach the right account. Check the public view after changing animal privacy, adding a document or updating a litter. Keep the site easy enough to maintain during busy periods of kitten care.

Common questions

Should the website show every cat in the cattery?

No. Choose pages that serve a clear purpose and review privacy for each cat. An animal can remain part of your records without becoming public marketing content.

Is a cattery website the same as registration?

No. A website presents your information. Registration and pedigree documents come from the relevant registry and need to be checked through that organization’s process.

Do I need a custom domain to start?

No. Start with a free creaturesite.com address and clear content. A custom domain is available with Creatures Pro when you want one.

Do this next on Creatures

Use these animal owner actions to organize the information behind the public site. A profile or directory entry does not certify a breeding program or a facility.

• Create the program presence: Create your organization profile. The guest flow can start before signup; choose the account that should own the site.
• Start with an individual animal: Add your cats. Guests can begin the flow. Read the animal profile guide for the fields and next steps.
• Keep evidence with the animal: Add a record. The sheet opens for visitors; a free account is required to save. The record guide explains the process.
• Watch for matching animals: Set a cats listing alert. This is an email alert for animal listings, not a service reservation or a waitlist application.
• Compare live sale information: Browse cats listings. Check availability and details with the seller.
• Find animal businesses: Browse the breeder directory, then review each business’s own evidence and terms.